This Day in Minnesota History

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Today's Date: September 16

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1885

Macalester College opens its St. Paul campus. Originally known as Baldwin School, it had been renamed for Charles Macalester. Macalester owned the Winslow House, a hotel in Minneapolis where classes were first held. Macalester agreed to donate the hotel to the college in 1874.
1928

At the grand opening of a co-op in Mississippi (Minnesota), customers consume forty-five gallons of Red Star coffee and eighty-five dozen biscuits.
1995

Henry Charles Boucha is inducted into US Hockey Hall of Fame. An Ojibwe man born in Warroad on June 1, 1951, Boucha had been a star player on the US Olympic team and had played professional hockey for the Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota North Stars. After an eye injury forced him to retire, he served as coordinator of the Warroad Public Schools Indian Education Department.